East Notes: Murphy, Colon, Hardy, Machado

The Mets are likely to shop Daniel Murphy again this offseason, Joel Sherman of the New York Post writes. The free agent market for hitters is weak, so they might be able to do well in a deal. If they do trade him, Wilmer Flores could take over at second until a more permanent starter emerges, perhaps prospect Dilson Herrera. The Mets also could wait to trade Murphy until next summer. A long-term deal seems unlikely. Here are more notes from the East Coast.

The Mets placed Bartolo Colon on revocable waivers today, and while he’s pitched reasonably well this season and is only due $11MM in 2015, ESPN’s Buster Olney tweets that one executive thinks that a waiver claim would be “like a lightning bolt from the heavens for the Mets.”

Manny Machado’s season-ending knee injury could impact whether J.J. Hardy returns to the Orioles next season, Steve Melewski of MASNsports.com suggests. Hardy is a free agent, and the idea was that Machado would move to shortstop once he left. With Machado’s knee issues, though, it’s not yet clear whether he will be able to handle the move to a tougher spot on the diamond.

Comments

The Mets trading their only consistent hitter would be a harsh blow to an already beleaguered fan-base. Mets fans want an accumulation of reliable pieces, not a trade for more prospects. We have the prospects to trade FOR those reliable pieces. Yes, a strong farm system is necessary, but 2015 has to be a win-now year or the fans will go insane.

I would let him play out the contract myself, but the QO is a risky proposition with Murphy. Allegedly, his next contract will look something like 4/40. Would he want to turn down 1/13 to get 4/40? Would the METS be willing to pay 1/13 for a player worth 10M a year? All of that has to be considered before handing out the QO.

I’m aware that Murphy CAN get 4/40 from somebody. The question is whether or not he would turn that down for 1/13. He doesn’t have a history of injury and keeps getting better every year. Taking the QO might increase his value a year later.

Murphy should stay for a long time, we need a real SS. Let’s not start creating more wholes in the field. We went into the season with questions in the bullpen, 1B, SS and LF. We still have SS and LF, but we’ve solved 2 of them. Creating another one is simply silly. He leads the NL in hits, how could we get rid of him?

One good hitter? Have you been paying attention to Lucas Duda’s season? Are you going to ignore David Wright’s entire career because of an injury ridden season? Has Travis d’Arnaud not been an entirely different hitter since returning from AAA? Curtis Granderson is slumping right now but he was great from May-July, and he’s been incredibly unlucky for the past month. “One good hitter…” give me a break.

You might wanna check on Duda, sport. He’s having a monster year. Wright having a horrible year has really, really cost them. d’Arnaud has been really good lately, he finally looks like the guy all the scouts loved. As far as the “supposedly” part in terms of their young pitching, I don’t know what to tell you… They have tons of really good young pitching no matter who you ask.

Just shows the Mets owners maybe rich but when it comes to the Mets they’re poor. They want to trade Murphy because they can’t afford him. The same way they signed Colon for 9mil the first year and 11mil the next, and now they want to trade him and won’t eat none of next years contract. The only reason they signed Granderson was because he was the cheapest of the 30yr old OF’s on the market they needed OF’s bad and to get the fans and media off their backs about not spending! Believe me if Granderson was having a good year the Mets would try to trade him too for a younger OF and get out of his contract also. The Mets are in a sad state. I’m a huge Mets fan and I can’t see this getting any better as long as the a Wilpons own them. Wilpons won’t spend money until they make money on the team and the fans won’t spend money until we see a winner. HELLO Wilpons spend money on good players make a winning team and WE the fans will come!!!! It’s like going to a steakhouse and the owner telling you if you buy my old steaks and eat it then I can afford to buy the grade A steak for you to eat. No you serve the grade A steak first and that’s what makes the people come!!!